TUESDAY April 4, 2023: 'Armenia: Clinging To Peace' by award winning Le Pictorium photographer Chris Huby: Two years after their second war over Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan are uncomfortably close to starting a third. In January 2023, the EU announced a new mission to monitor the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. Fighting had flared there the previous September, though high-level diplomacy helped prevent it from expanding into full-scale war. But with peace talks faltering, and Baku in a stronger military position, the risk of renewed clashes remains high. Welcome to 'Armenia: Clinging To Peace'
© zReportage.com Story of the Week #883: TUESDAY April 4, 2023: 'Armenia: Clinging To Peace' by award winning Le Pictorium photographer Chris Huby: Two years after their second war over Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan are uncomfortably close to starting a third. In January 2023, the EU announced a new mission to monitor the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. Fighting had flared there the previous September, though high-level diplomacy helped prevent it from expanding into full-scale war. But with peace talks faltering, and Baku in a stronger military position, the risk of renewed clashes remains high. Welcome to 'Armenia: Clinging To Peace'
A young orphan girl looks up from her prayer book during prayers at the chapel at Our Lady of Armenia Educational Center and Orphanage. The charitable NGO ''Endanik'' helps the center to deal with the basic needs of orphaned teenagers.
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Lunch is served for the elderly at Our Lady of Armenia Educational Centre in Gyumri, which is provided by charitable NGO 'Endanik''. The centre has been dealing with displaced persons including the elderly and orphans.
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Stark tenement buildings in the Mush district, a poor suburb of Gyumri, the area hosts many refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh who came after the 44-day war.
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Leatherwork classes are given to teenage girls in Gyumri. The classes are set up by the charitable NGO 'Endanik' which has been dealing with displaced people and orphans from the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Center strives to create an atmosphere where the child can develop mental, spiritual, social, physical and emotional abilities.
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A tiny church sits on a hillside overlooking the Mush neighborhood, in the suburbs of Gyumri. About 97 percent of citizens belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church, an Eastern Christian denomination in communion with the other Oriental Orthodox churches.
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In the morning, the sisters and volunteers walk the children to the nearby school Our Lady of Armenia Educational Centre and Orphanage. The NGO 'Endanik' was founded in 1990 and was one of the first in Gyumri after the earthquake to deal with the basic problems of adolescents. Since the Azeri attacks at the end of 2020, the centre has been caring for displaced persons and orphans.
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A white horse grazes near abandoned cars in the Mush neighborhood of Gyumri. The owners are refugees from the Nagorno-Karabakh 44-day war of 2020 who now live with 7 other people in a small home.
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Five girls sit together on a couch, they are all members of a Nagorno-Karabakh refugee family now living in a small house in the suburb of Gyumri. The only boy in the family died during the 44 day war.
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At the centre for disabled children of the 'Sisters of Mother Teresa,' several children have severe motor or psychological handicaps. and here the sisters take care of them with patience and dedication.
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Patients receive physical therapy yteatmentat the Muratsan Military Hospital in Yerevan where some the wounded of the wars with Azerbaijan are treated and rehabilitated.
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Girls participate in a dance class held at the 'Endanik ' centre for young students, which provides schooling and care for young adolescent orphans.
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Young students from the 'Endanik' centre put together a troupe for traditional folk dances and keeping local traditions alive. Since the was with Azerbiajan at the end of 2020, the centre has been dealing with displaced persons and orphans.
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Before an English class, students stand and say a prayer. The 'Endanik' Center based in Gyumri helps with the basic schooling needs of adolescents, and since the Azeri attacks at the end of 2020, the centre has been dealing with displaced persons and orphans.
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A teenage girl shows her creativity during a painting class set up by the charitable NGO 'Endanik' which helps support young orphans in need after the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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A young refugee girl who sits alone outside the home in the Mush neighborhood, where her family now live. After fleeing from the Nagorno-Karabakh war of 2020, they now live with 7 other people in a small house.
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A shepherd watches over his flock in the Shirak region. The nearby village of Arpeni was destroyed by the 1990 earthquake and affected by the recent wars.
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The village of Hovtun, Shirak region, where FATHER ELIAS is trying to rebuild the local church thanks he states, to funding from the French Christian group Oeuvre d' Orient. The new church, is functional, but still under construction.
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A Russian made car on a dusty road in the Mush neighborhood, in the suburbs of Gyumri. During the Soviet era Yerevan began to produce vehicles at the 'Yerevan Automobile Plant', which finally went bankrupt in 2002.
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